Intro To Cultural Anthropology Exam 1

Front 1

What anthropologist studied the Siriono?

Back 1

Holmberg

Front 2

Why is "Cool Hand" Luke incarcerated?

Back 2

cutting the heads off of parking meters

Front 3

Who was the first to define culture?

Back 3

Tylor

Front 4

Urban legends contain these 3 elements...

Back 4

basic story appeal, foundation in actual belief,
meaningful message

Front 5

Name 2 social messages from the "Death Car"

Back 5

death is permanent and unavoidable,you can’t profit off of death, you can’t get something for nothing

Front 6

Why do the Western Apache resent it when Anglo-Americans address them by their personal names?

Back 6

Western Apache feel that Anglo-Americans need to give everything a name and are unable to speak in vague terms

Front 7

Trask disputes Keesing's assertions regarding the modern indigenous invention of native traditions for all of the following reasons except:
a) Keesing only consults contemporary haole accounts and outside Western accountsj
b) Keesing fails to distinguish between Hawaii's nationalistic culture and its advertised tourism image
c) Keesing does not incorporate the writings of native Hawaiian nationalists.
d) Keesing does not use DNA evidence to support his claims

Back 7

e

Front 8

"In the beginning, God gave to every people a cup, a cup of clay, and from this cup they drank their life. They all dipped in the water, but their cups were different. Our cup is broken now. It has passed away."

Who wrote this?

Back 8

Benedict

Front 9

"In the beginning, God gave to every people a cup, a cup of clay, and from this cup they drank their life. They all dipped in the water, but their cups were different. Our cup is broken now. It has passed away."

This refers to a story by which group?

Back 9

Digger Indians

Front 10

"In the beginning, God gave to every people a cup, a cup of clay, and from this cup they drank their life. They all dipped in the water, but their cups were different. Our cup is broken now. It has passed away."

The cups are a metaphor for what?

Back 10

culture

Front 11

Who wrote The Chrysanthemum and the Sword?

Back 11

Ruth Benedict

Front 12

Who wrote The Vanishing Hitchhiker?

Back 12

Jan Brunvand

Front 13

Who wrote Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics?

Back 13

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Front 14

Who wrote Primitive Culture?

Back 14

Edward Tylor

Front 15

Who Wrote Sorcerers of Dobu?

Back 15

R. F. Fortune

Front 16

Who Wrote Portraits of "the Whiteman"?

Back 16

Keith H. Basso

Front 17

Who Wrote Patterns of Culture?

Back 17

Ruth Benedict

Front 18

Who Wrote Death Without Weeping?

Back 18

Nancy Shephard Hughes

Front 19

Which region do the Pueblo Live?

Back 19

North American Southwest

Front 20

Which region do the Dobu Live?

Back 20

Melanesia

Front 21

Which region do the Kwakiutl Live?

Back 21

North American Northwest

Front 22

Which region do the Siriono Live?

Back 22

Bolivia

Front 23

Which region do the Western Apache Live?

Back 23

North American Southwest

Front 24

Which region do the Ballybran Live?

Back 24

Ireland

Front 25

Which region do the Alto, Dom Jesus live?

Back 25

Brazil

Front 26

What group is this reffering to?

"They have the simplicity of mania."

Back 26

Dobu

Front 27

What group is this reffering to?

"[They]… are essentially realistic, and they do not deny sorrow at death… They treat it as loss, and as important loss. But they provide detailed techniques for getting past it as quickly and with as little violence as possible."

Back 27

Pueblo

Front 28

What group is this reffering to?

"In practice suicide was comparatively common. The mother of a woman who was sent home by her husband for unfaithfulness was shamed and strangled herself. A man whose son stumbled in his initiation dance, not being able to finance a second winter ceremonial, was defeated and shot himself."

Back 28

Dobu

Front 29

What group is this reffering to?

"They put a premium on ill-will and treachery and make of them the recognized virtues of their society."

Back 29

Dobu

Front 30

What group is this reffering to?

"They do not understand self-torture."

Back 30

Pueblo

Front 31

What group is this reffering to?

"It is taken for granted that he has thieved, killed children and his close associates by sorcery, cheated whenever he dared."

Back 31

Dobu

Front 32

What group is this reffering to?

"Whether it is anger or love or jealousy or grief, moderation is the first virtue.”

Back 32

Pueblo

Front 33

What group is this reffering to?

"We do not fight with weapons. We fight with property."

Back 33

Kwakiutl

Front 34

What group is this reffering to?

"Marital jealousy is soft-pedaled. They do not meet adultery with violence."

Back 34

Pueblo

Front 35

What group is this reffering to?

"Faithfulness is not expected between husband and wife, and they will not admit that a man and woman are ever together even for the shortest interval except for sexual purposes."

Back 35

Dobu

Front 36

What group is this reffering to?

"The object of all of their enterprise was to show oneself superior to one's rivals. This will to superiority they exhibited in the most uninhibited fashion. It found expression in uncensored glorification and ridicule of all comers."

Back 36

Kwakiutl

Front 37

What group is this reffering to?

"In every possible way marriage was a business transaction."

Back 37

Kwakiutl

Front 38

True/False

The idea of a neutral history is a universal among all cultures.

Back 38

False

Front 39

True/False

Culture can only be studied through its objectifications and manifestations

Back 39

False

Front 40

True/False

According to the American Anthropological Association, race is a biological construction, not a social one.

Back 40

False

Front 41

True/False

There is more variety within established biological races than between them.

Back 41

True

Front 42

True/False

Scheper-Hughes’s work on the rural Irish was well received by the native population with which she lived.

Back 42

False

Front 43

True/False

The Nestle corporation discouraged Brazilian women from breastfeeding their children.

Back 43

True

Front 44

True/False

The home team wins every Trobriand cricket game.

Back 44

True

Front 45

True/False

Benedict lived with the Kwakiutl.

Back 45

False

Front 46

True/False

Benedict based her study of the Zuni on Franz Boas's publications.

Back 46

False

Front 47

True/False

Benedict drew on Reo Fortune's work to analyze the Dobu.

Back 47

True

Front 48

True/False

Benedict believes that cultures are more than a sum of their traits.

Back 48

True

Front 49

True/False

The microwave oven and television are key elements to "The Baby-Sitter and the Man Upstairs" urban legend.

Back 49

False

Front 50

True/False

Both men and women perform Western Apache "portraits."

Back 50

False

Front 51

True/False

The Western Apache believe it is arrogant and self-indulgent to desire to be noticed.

Back 51

True

Front 52

True/False

Ultimogeniture is the system in which the youngest sibling inherits the wealth and property of the family upon the death of the older generation.

Back 52

True

Front 53

NAGPRA stands for the Native American ____________

Back 53

Graves Protection and Repatriation Act

Front 54

Karl Marx stated that, “People make history, but they do not make it as they choose nor under conditions created by themselves.” Anthropologists note a similar reciprocal relationship between people and ___________.

Back 54

Culture

Front 55

Scheper Hughes used TAT's to study the Irish...what are TAT's

Back 55

Thematic Apperception Test

Front 56

Cricket took the place of what in Trobrian society

Back 56

war

Front 57

Scraping tapioca is a symbol for what in Trobraind society?

Back 57

sexuality